Objectives: 1. Assess factors that enhance or constrain implementation of nutrition interventions at national and sub national levels. 2. Analyze how direct nutrition interventions and multi sector approaches are implemented at national, regional, zonal and woreda levels. 3. Id...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20913
Objectives: Vitamin D insufficiency is endemic in western countries. Emerging evidence suggests this may be true also for countries with abundant sunshine. This study aimed to evaluate the vitamin D status and associated risk factors in a sub-sample of children from the South Eas...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20914
Objectives: Analyze the process, achieved coverages of the Burkina Faso'VAS program during the last ten years and ways forward to improve the quality of services and monitoring and evaluation system. Methods: An indepth analysis using the conceptual framework from MI and UNICEF (...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20915
Objectives: To characterize the changes in iron content through cereal processing for a better evaluation of iron intakes and its origin. Methods: Most frequently used processing methods of maize, millet, sorghum, barley, wheat and teff were followed (n≥3) in households in Benin,...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20916
Objectives: Donated or subsidized KIO3 for Universal Salt Iodization (USI) programs supports iodization in resource-constrained contexts. However, sustainable and reliable supply systems are required. To address this, GAIN supported the establishment of financially viable supply...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20917
Objectives: The objective of this study was to identify gaps in the adequacy of nutrient intakes, and food-based recommendations to fill those gaps, from complementary diets of 6-23 mo old children in two agro-ecological zones of rural Kenya. Methods: In a high rainfall area of W...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20918
Objectives: In Bangladesh, zinc deficiency affects 45% of preschool children and 57% of women. As zinc deficiency is linked to child growth stunting, diarrheal disease, pneumonia, and increased risk of child mortality, large-scale programs for its prevention are required. Most ri...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20919
Objectives: The objective of this presentation will be to demonstrate how the combination of in vitro screening and an animal model can be extremely useful to develop and monitor Fe-biofortified crops, and evaluate meal plans in advance of human studies to determine if the crop i...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20920
Objectives: School-aged children in Haiti consume a diet primarily of rice and beans, with limited sources of micronutrient-rich foods. Edible forms of micronutrient supplements must be considered, since children may not be able to safely swallow pills or capsules, and taste pref...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20921
Sarah Hanieh, Tran Ha, Julie Simpson, Gerard Casey, Nguyen Khuong, Dang Thoang, Tran Thuy, Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Thach Tran, Tran Tuan, Terence Dwyer, Jane Fisher & Beverley-Ann Biggs·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Intermittent antenatal iron supplementation is an attractive alternative to daily dosing during pregnancy, however the impact of this strategy on infant outcomes remains unclear. We compared the effect of intermittent antenatal iron supplementation with daily iron sup...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20922
Objectives: To estimate the potential impact of national fortification of wheat flour and vegetable oil on inadequate intakes of vitamin A, zinc and iron in Ethiopian women of childbearing age. Methods: Nationally representative 24-hour dietary recall data were collected from chi...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20923
Objectives: The objective of this paper is to illustrate the importance of micronutrients and the consequences of not having enough amount of these nutrients in our diet. The paper also focuses on the innovative approach and the strategy being adopted by Crops For the Future Rese...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20925
Objectives: Due to rapid urbanization and the absence of an urban health policy until 2013, India's large and rapidly growing urban poor has very limited access to health and nutrition services. The Government of Madhya Pradesh sought assistance to systematically increase coverag...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20926
Objectives: The current vitamin A supplementation (VAS) program recording and reporting system in Indonesia faces inadequacies in terms of accuracy and completeness. This exercise was implemented to identify the bridge these gaps and inform the design of more accurate and efficie...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20927
Objectives: Although national coverage of VAS is high in Pakistan (>95%), large pockets of low coverage have been identified. A VAS coverage survey conducted by the Micronutrient Initiative (MI) in 2010 identified the reasons for low coverage as inadequate attention to VAS dur...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20928